Well, well, well, dear reader, so you are reading this and possibly planning to do this yourself, right? Let me tell you my story:
The hardware:
My wife uses windows occasionally for work, and some software of mine is better used on a real machine rather than as virtual machine.
Both licenses for XP pro and win7 ultimate cost me about 32 EUR.
After several attempts to achieve the triple boot I just discovered the lack of software to fix the MBR or GRUB bootloader. In the end I did this manually with a manjaro live CD.
Anyway, the right order is XP pro, then win7 and the manjaro linux for M$ is just using ONE bootloader and XP cant insert itself into win7, but the other way around easily.
In the end you will geht a boot sequence like this:
The hardware is old but fast enough for our needs since we dont play games or do heavy editing of videos or photos.
Give it a try and enjoy a cheap setup
(with manjaro linux for the heavy duty work for its better hardware use)
The hardware:
- IBM thinkcentre M50, even with 3,5 inch floppy
- Pentium 4
- 512 RAM DDR1 333 Mhz (to be 4 GB next week)
- 270 GB HDD
My wife uses windows occasionally for work, and some software of mine is better used on a real machine rather than as virtual machine.
Both licenses for XP pro and win7 ultimate cost me about 32 EUR.
After several attempts to achieve the triple boot I just discovered the lack of software to fix the MBR or GRUB bootloader. In the end I did this manually with a manjaro live CD.
Anyway, the right order is XP pro, then win7 and the manjaro linux for M$ is just using ONE bootloader and XP cant insert itself into win7, but the other way around easily.
In the end you will geht a boot sequence like this:
- pick "Windows 7" in GRUB2
- and then pick "Windows 7" or "Previous version..." in M$ Bootloader
- after two GUIs your system boots up
The hardware is old but fast enough for our needs since we dont play games or do heavy editing of videos or photos.
Give it a try and enjoy a cheap setup
(with manjaro linux for the heavy duty work for its better hardware use)
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